Poverty of 'Development Economics - Softcover

Lal, Deepak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0255365195 ISBN 13: 9780255365192

Publisher: Inst of Economic Affairs, 2002

Synopsis

This book is a classic IEA text, first published in 1983, but revised and expanded in 1997. Its critique of that type of "development economics" highly influential in the 1980s, which the author branded the "dirigiste dogma", proved extremely controversial in the first few years of the book's life. Professor Lal concluded that the demise of the dogma would be beneficial to the health of "both the economics and the economies of developing countries". This history of the last twenty years has demonstrated the force of the Lal critique. The dogma in its old form has gone, as Professor Lal shows in a postscript that brings the original text up to date both in terms of statistics and in terms of the history of ideas. Nevertheless, as he warns, dirigiste tendencies have not disappeared, but emerging in new guises.

About this title

About the Author:

Deepak Lal is the James S. Coleman Professor of International Development Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Inst of Economic Affairs
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0255365195
• ISBN 13: 9780255365192
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 263